Welcome to … a new telephone mast … hmm

There’s a new and – sorry but there’s no other word for it – ugly addition to the Walkden station scene with the mobile phone mast plonked beside the track at the east end of the platform.

Of course these masts have to go somewhere, and hopefully the revenue raised by Network Rail gets channelled back to the stations where they’re installed, but how unfortunate to have this eyesore imposed while the improvements we really need from Network Rail don’t appear to be getting anywhere (raising the platform height, re-opening the full platform length, repairing the broken coping stones, clearing up the litter, installing CCTV, disabled access …. )